Reply by Loren

Price your work at what you need to get to makethe business of making things worthwhile. You canget paid what a plumber gets to do woodworking,but you have to be a good marketer to get thatand you have to know what you can and can’tmake money at. Original designs consume a lot oftime to protoype, but if they become salable portfolioitems and you have the jigs and templates theycan be assets.

Only the affluent are accustomed to paying forreal craftsmanship. Some non-affluent people knowwhat such things should cost because they haveskills or know somebody well in the trade.